The Frozen Ground (2013) on Netflix
R20131h 45mBiographyCrimeHistory
Cindy Paulson, seventeen, tells Anchorage detectives that Robert Hansen abducted and raped her, and they dismiss her. Trooper Jack Halcombe, on a missing-women case, receives her file.
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Plot summary
In 1983, a patrol officer in Anchorage finds 17-year-old Cindy Paulson handcuffed in a motel room and takes her to a hospital. She says a man took her and raped her, and she gives his name: Robert "Bob" Hansen, who owns a restaurant and has a wife and children. The detectives learn she works as a prostitute and has lied about her age, so they turn her away, and she goes back to the streets. The officer who rescued her makes a copy of the case file and passes it to the Alaska State Troopers. Jack Halcombe is investigating a woman's body recovered in the wilderness and other young women who disappeared after going to supposed photo shoots. He reads Cindy's account and needs her help to hold Hansen.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Frozen Ground (2013)
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- Writer-director Scott Walker shot The Frozen Ground in 26 days entirely in Alaska, delaying production by five months to film from fall into winter. He wanted the weather to close in on the story; by the last day there were 3½ hours less daylight than on the first.
SPOILER
The film is based on the crimes of the real Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen: the epilogue says he confessed to murdering 17 women and to the kidnappings and rapes of 30 more, and was sentenced to 461 years plus life without parole.
